Balscote / Balscott
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11965BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A422, W of Banbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of church and font.
Font Notes:
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The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "the font N[orman], large and plain." Tub-shaped basin on a short circular lower base; flat wooden cover; new lead lining. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 9, 1969) notes: "The chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, Balscott, [...] appears to have been rebuilt in the early 14th century, but retains a tub-shaped font and part of a tympanum, both of which may be late-12th-century." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with a moulded base."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974